Where is the Capitol Theater?

It's a popular movie theater in Arlington. But if you try to find it on Google, it's on Mass. Ave in Boston.

That's a big improvement over AOL Local (formerly CityGuide): it thinks the theater is "convenient to Rts. 2 and 16", but "6132.82 Miles Away" from Boston, in Kyrgyzstan not far from the Kazakhstan border (you have to zoom out the map to see, because they don't have detailed maps of the middle of nowhere).

The clear winner: Yahoo!. They've got it a few feet east of the location, but that's rounding error.
[where: 204 Massachusetts Ave, Arlington, MA 02474]

Democratic Book Social Cataloging Straw Poll

While the political journalists focus on the money primary, endorsements (do any voters really care who my employer endorses, especially in the Republican primary?), and the Iowa Caucuses, I've decided to look at a totally trivial constituency: people who list their books on Librarything, one of my favorite websites.

The clear leader in literary popularity is Barack Obama, with 1142 libraries including the Audacity of Hope, and another 898 his memoir, Dreams From My Father. Hillary Rodham Clinton runs second, with 835 copies of Living History and only 188 copies of "It Takes a Village." Obama's work also gets a better rating - 3.93 average, against 3.35 for Clinton (out of a possible 5 stars).

The rest of the pack:

• John Edwards - 58 copies (but a very impressive 4.5 rating for "Four Trials")


• Dennis Kucinich - 25


• Christopher Dodd - 21


• Bill Richardson - 18


• Joe Biden - 7


• Mike Gravel - 6

Miscellaneous

• It's always humorous when your children reuse your idiosyncratic phrases. Joshua opened up a DVD from the library this evening and declared "This DVD has serious shmutz on it" and brought it to me to clean.


• This was something that made me laugh yesterday: The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks


• While checking my del.icio.us bookmarks for that URL, I just saw a blog that I had saved for looking at some more: The Jew and the Carrot. Perhaps a bit more radical than my taste, but bringing three of my interests (Judaism, food, and social responsibility).